United States soldiers unload weapons and place them on the ground during the Vietnam War. Crates with various markings. Captured North Vietnamese weapons such as rifles, submachine guns, and ammunition on display. The soldiers inspect Chinese anti-tank and mortar rounds captured from North Vietnamese forces. A finger points to Chinese markings. North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh meets with delegates. Ho Chi Minh and other North Vietnamese communist leaders attend meeting with United States officials. “Our war aim in South Vietnam is peace. President Johnson has directed me to do everything possible to bring this matter from the battlefield to the conference table. And so we’ve been utilizing all of the existing and available political machinery for that purpose” says Secretary of State Dean Rusk during an interview.
Soviet air defense sites in the Soviet Union. Radar antennas on the Soviet air defense sites. The antennas near a beach and in a snow covered area.
C-130 aircraft with opened cargo hatch and supplies being loaded. A C-130 cargo plane taxies and another one takes off in the background. U.S. troops march on airfield. U.S. Air Force personnel help a Catholic Priest arriving at airfield on a school bus. Foreign nationals are being evacuated and supplies are being brought in by U.S. Air Force Cargo planes. Long lines of C-130s taxi for takeoff. In West Africa, view from cockpit of a C-130 and from inside the cargo hold as the aircraft deploys extraction parachute with connected cargo of grain for the local population suffering severe drought. People gather around a town center square, where grain is being distributed. Woman carries basket of grain on her head.
A squad of Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) wearing steel helmets, stand over a wounded Viet Cong prisoner, wearing a red scarf. He is seated on the ground next to the covered dead body of a comrade, lying on a litter. Army trucks and a parked helicopter are in the far background. An ARVN soldier, in soft cap, opens a packet of medicine and gives some to the prisoner. Scene shifts to headquarters tent, where ARVN officers and NCOs sit by a bank of telephones. Those manning the phones are quite occupied, receiving reports and making notes. Information is seen being posted on a battlefield map. (Note: Only faint wild sound is heard in this clip.)
New troops in Vietnam are shown how to hold weapons. Instructors teaches various positions to fire and ways to hold weapons.
South Vietnamese Regional forces or Popular forces being trained during the Vietnam War. Men of South Vietnamese Regional forces or Popular forces on a road with a two and a half ton truck in the background. Soldiers of Regional forces loaded onto the truck. Truck driver at steering as it moves along a road. Soldiers lined up.
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